One of the most popular games at UK Games Expo this year and certainly one of the most anticipated releases of 2018, Holding On is a cooperative game for 1 to 4 players in which you provide physical and palliative care to a patient approaching their last moments of life.

In the process, this patient - Billy Kerr - will confide in the players about his life and the regrets he has. It's an important game that hits home for both Cass and Ryan with the pair trying to hold back their emotions at times.

Have you ever played a board game that has moved you to tears or stunned you with its mechanical metaphors?

I agree completely. This war of mine is a heartbreaking play with real tough life choices with no right alternatives. I backed the kickstarter for the board game and it has a similar weight as the computer game.

Thank you everyone for the awesome let’s play of Holding On. Great to see Rory from Rory’s Story Cubes again. I can very much relate to his observation about how being with a close relative in a Hospital or Hospice – particularly at nightime – and having the privilage of sharing what little time they may have – can be such a personal and perhaps even life-changing experience.

I must go back to the Holding On kickstarter to read the comments, as I am curious: Do you have feedback about Holding On from any healthcare professionals who work in an Intensive Care Unit or a Hospice?

The last time I became so involved watching a group playing a Board Game on YouTube, was the Dead of Winter Episode of Will Wheatons TableTop.

I kickstarted This War of Mine – loved the Concept, the Design, the Graphics and the Production quality – but the emotional stress of the stories of the civilians living through a siege like Sarajevo was very harrowing.

Anyway, thanks so much again – and interesting to see Beasts of War / On Table Top playing a non-conflict/military themed game for a change.

We were very excited to play Holding On. It’s a really special game. I believe the designers did get a bit of feedback from healthcare professionals but the game is developed from their own personal experience of being in hospital with a loved one. I personally am looking forward to playing it with my Sister and her husband who are both nurses.